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Build your neighborhood as it is or as you would like it to be.Students construct their own communities using only cardboard. They'll work together in teams to decide what to build, how to build it, and how to combine it with other structures from the rest of the class.
This experience is all about collaboration, ingenuity, and persistence (no matter how much tape you use, you will have to rebuild). |
POSSIBLE ACADEMIC CONNECTIONS
As much fun as it would be to build communities out of cardboard just because, you probably have some academic content that you're responsible for teaching. Below is a list of academic skills that I've used this project to support to get you started. There are many others that we will discover as we go, and we can continue to add to the ideas shared in our Slack group.
MATH
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SCIENCE
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ELA
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Timeline and
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Materials
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OUR COMMUNITY
A big part of this experience is talking to other educators who are also trying out some of these ideas. Before getting started, let's get you set up with the tools below to communicate with each other. Click on each one to set up your account, introduce yourself, and get to know everyone else!
For more about why we chose these tools and how to get started, click here.
For more about why we chose these tools and how to get started, click here.
Use Twitter to share your experience with the world! Photos, resources, etc. Tag your posts with #buildwithcardboard to pull them into our feed. Use Participate to engage in the chats.
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Use Slack for ongoing chats with this community: ideas, questions, advice, victories, and high fives. Click here for help on getting started.
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Use Flipgrid for reflecting and sharing excitement in video form. No need for an account.
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Use a Participate collection as a portfolio of all the amazing stuff you and your students do. More on this toward the end, but go ahead and set up a free Participate account now. |
Introduce yourself |
Check out our feed |
YOUR MISSION
(should you choose to accept)
Use cardboard to create a model of your community.
Have you ever built anything out of cardboard? A fort, a sled, an arcade game, a dollhouse, a robot? How did you put it together? What challenges did you face? What did you love about it? What was frustrating? What did you learn?
Have you ever built anything out of cardboard? A fort, a sled, an arcade game, a dollhouse, a robot? How did you put it together? What challenges did you face? What did you love about it? What was frustrating? What did you learn?
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More Resources and Info
THINK IT.
What buildings do you see everyday? What are the structures that are the most important to your community? What do they look like? What doesn't exist in your neighborhood but would make your community stronger? Students could build those too!
Tips and Tools
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How are your students responding to the project so far? What are you noticing about their learning?
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Post some photos of the students designs and ideas! If you're stuck, reach out! If you discovered something amazing, share the love!
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Share the genius ideas your students are coming up with-- post photos or their designs or quotes. Use the hashtag #buildwithcardboard.
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BUILD IT.
Arm students with scissors, markers and tape, and watch them go! Embrace the mess!
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Tips and Tools
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How are your students solving problems or coming up with ingenious ways of building? How are they working together?
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If you're stuck, reach out! If you discovered something amazing, share the love! Want to shamelessly brag on your students? We're waiting to give you a high five!
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Craft a story about this experience. This story can look like anything (video, blog, interpretive dance, etc), but think about the stories that catch other teachers on fire. These stories have the following in common:
- Visual: What did this actually look like in your classroom? Show us! Even the messy parts!
- Student Impact: Talk about your kids! Did they love it? What did they learn? How do you know? (Need help assessing this? Consider using a rubric like this.)
- Educator Impact: Be honest: how was this for you? What did you love? What made you super uncomfortable? What does this mean for you as a teacher moving forward?
- Real Voice: Be yourself and avoid eduspeak; jargon doesn't make anyone feel like they're on fire! How would you talk about this with your colleagues, family, and friends?
- Shareable: How will you get this out to the world and into the hands of people who need to hear this story?
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